November 10, 2017

The Democrat gun merchants

Barack Obama was arguably the greatest firearms salesman in history.

On his watch the stock of guns in private hands grew by leaps and bounds. The civilian firearms industry reaped unheard-of profits and ammo manufacturers were compelled to invest in new production facilities to keep up with soaring demand.

Donald Trump's election may have soothed the fears of gun owners but it was bad for the industry. Sales fell sharply and stock prices took a dive. The assumption was that there would no longer be a need to stockpile the latest products.

That assumption has turned out to be false. Despite zero evidence that gun control can curb violent crime, the Democrats continue to hammer the issue. Their latest effort to ban "assault weapons" - which also includes bump stocks - is unlikely to go anywhere, but the sellers of both products are effectively printing money.

This is yet another example of how progressives are utterly indifferent to whether or not their policies actually work. It's all about posturing and appearances.

One reason that this legislation is unlikely to move forward is that news has emerged that two of the church shooters (whose names I will not further broadcast) should have failed the background check necessary to purchase their murder weapon.

In the most recent case, the Air Force botched the paperwork and a full-on review is now taking place.

This is inexcusable. What is the point of passing increasingly restrictive laws if the government is too incompetent to enforce them?

Of course gun control supporter might argue that if these purchases had been refused, the shooters would have gone through a third party, perhaps a 'straw purchaser' who has a clean record and then illegally sells it to the shooter.

Believe it or not, these transactions can be traced and tens of thousands of them are know to occur each year.

They are also very rarely prosecuted.

These facts are why I no longer trust the good intentions of the gun control crowd. If they truly believed what they said, they would be howling for the heads of the law enforcement agencies. Chuck Schumer and Diane Feinstein would be grilling department heads on why they aren't more aggressively pursuing these criminals.

Dick Durbin would demand a massive federal effort to stamp out straw purchases in Chicago and threaten to shut down the government unless mass arrests of these repeat offenders took place.

But of course nothing like this happens. These people could care less about whether these laws are enforced. In fact, I suspect they fear that if existing laws are more vigorously enforced, crime might drap even more sharply, undermining their case for total gun prohibition.

The irony of course is that the same people demanding gun bans also oppose "stop and frisk" policies specifically designed to get guns off the streets. If guns were banned, how exactly would they be rounded up? Would Black Lives Matter stand idly by while police conducted house-to-house searches in the inner city?

Comments

Oh please. Black Lives Matter's sole purpose is to keep the black vote coming out for the Dems. In the absence of actual incidents, they create them, Ferguson being a prime example.

The media lost its collective mind over Sandy Hook, but Chicago gets a Sandy Hook every couple of weeks in slow motion. Sandy Hook was important because white, affluent liberals were the ones who died. South Carolina got attention only because it could be pinned on a white racist. Otherwise, the Dems would yawn.

You are correct, however, that black people will be disproportionately affected by gun control. Of course that's because gun control was always about keeping black people vulnerable to the Democrat's militant wing, aka the KKK.

Democrats don't even bother to enforce existing gun laws, but advocate new and more intrusive ones that we know will be used to put otherwise law-abiding black people in jail.

And the GOP is the party of white privilege.

I've been around for a long time and I'm still amazed at the loyalty black people show to people who clearly want to keep them broken. The Dems insist it's because the GOP is full of Klansmen, but that ignores that fact that if the GOP really was as full of black hatred as the Dems allege, they couldn't really improve on what's already going on, could they?

Black Lives Matter is a protest regarding the disproportionate amount of police brutality directed at blacks for their share of the population. So long as Jimmy Ammosexual in the suburbs gets raided before he shoots up another church or primary school, meaning equal attention is given to white gun owners, I'd imagine they'll be fine. But let's face it, black gun owners will get the crackdown while white people waffle about mental illness.